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Neuroscience Letters
Volume 331, Issue 1, 4 October 2002, Pages 37-40
 
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Morphology of physiologically identified otolith-related vestibular neurons in cats

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Hui Meng, Hitoshi Sato, Midori Imagawa, Mridha Zakir, Seiji Ono, Keisuke Kushiro, Xialing Zhang, Rishu Bai and Yoshio UchinoCorresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author

Department of Physiology, Tokyo Medical University, 6-1-1 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8402, Japan


Received 8 July 2002; 
revised 24 July 2002; 
accepted 25 July 2002. 
Available online 27 September 2002.

Abstract

The morphology of physiologically identified otolith nerve-activated vestibular neurons was investigated using intracellular injections of horseradish peroxidase (HRP). Eleven utricular, 11 saccular and three utricular/saccular nerve-activated vestibular neurons were labeled with HRP. All of these neurons except one were secondary neurons, the exception being a convergent neuron. The labeled neurons were pyramidal, elongated and ovoidal in shape. Most of the labeled cells were medium to large (mean diameter: ≥30 μm). There was no apparent correlation between morphology and the different types of otolith nerve-activated vestibular neurons. Thus, it seems likely that the functional type of vestibular neurons cannot be presumed on the basis of their morphology alone.

Author Keywords: Utriculus; Sacculus; Horseradish peroxidase; Axonal trajectory; Vestibulospinal neuron; Commissural neuron

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